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I'm soon to install a PFC in my s1 r33 gtst and want to do the timing belt and cam gears at the same time. I found the belt for a good price but Tomei gears I can only find for $500 for the pair.

There is a group buy going on for no-name gears but I really would prefer name brand if I can get a better price, and I think many of you would agree.

I've done a fair bit of searching but does anyone know of a better than $500 price? It doesn't have to be Tomei but I have read some stories about other name-branders that have 'issues'. Am I being pedantic and the no-namers are fine? I'll settle for just the exhaust side for now if I have to but I have to think that buying them as a pair will net me a better buying price.

Any info would be great, from businesses or individuals.

Thanks

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I have looked at these flyn sets but passed them off. Should I look more at the materials used than branding? Duralium sounds too flash to pass up!

If I find an unobtainium pair I'll look into it :P

I've just heard about manufacturing faults in cheap ones and I consider timing to be a little too important to simply hope for the best. Then again I've also read about name brand gears that chip/fracture, and that would have seemed unlikely to me, so I just want some opinions given that I have never used any, and don't want to be giving someone else the 'why I would never use anything but the best' speech to another noob

Name brand - you get some anodised/painted crap.

Big deal. They sit behind a cam belt cover afterall...

No-name FTW. You can get stock/modded ones for half that price easily and they do exactly the same thing.

Steer clear from ebay stuff, and HKS Gen1 cam gears, other than that a gear is a gear.

Sweet thanks for the info nismoid. I'm not interested in the colour or a name written on it, I just tend to think the larger names sell better gear. Sometimes this is true, sometimes not. I just try to apply the old adage 'you get what you pay for', and it's difficult to know when to buy the cheaper stuff, and I like to do my research. Let other people do it first, and learn from that.

Dirtgarage has given me a good price on OS Giken gears so we'll see.

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